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1 month ago | 
bkreader.com | Dennis H. Pillsbury
Ernesta Gertrude Procope was born on Feb. 9, 1923, in Brooklyn and was raised in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Her father, Clarence Forster, was born in Barbados and and her mother, Elvira (Lord) Forster, a homemaker, was born in St. Lucia, in the British West Indies.
She was a talented pianist and attended the High School of Music and Art (now the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts) in Manhattan.
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Sep 29, 2023 | 
roughnotes.com | Dennis H. Pillsbury |Chuck Byrne |Sam Berman
From Zero To $20 Million
“We ask staff what we should keep doing,what we should stop doing.
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Jul 31, 2023 | 
roughnotes.com | Dennis H. Pillsbury |Sam Berman
Agency of the monthThe Aspire Insurance Group team. From left: Chloe DeLaForest, Marketing; Caryn Weingartner, Agent; Beth DeLaForest, President; Adam DeLaForest, Chief Financial Officer; Kaitlyn Jensen, Agency Manager; and Whitney Elsen, Personal Lines Account Specialist. Relationships are key to success in the virtual worldfor this upper Midwest agencyBy Dennis H.
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Jun 30, 2023 | 
roughnotes.com | Dennis H. Pillsbury |Sam Berman
Agency of the monthThe Hitchings Insurance Agency team outside their Findlay, Ohio, office. Ohio agency focuses on empathy for everyone’s situationBy Dennis H. PillsburyThere’s an adage often ascribed to Andrew Carnegie that says “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations.” Clearly, Andrew Carnegie—or whoever actually said this—hadn’t spent much time around independent agents.
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Jun 1, 2023 | 
roughnotes.com | Dennis H. Pillsbury |Sam Berman
Members of the Florida Risk Partners team. From left: Grayson Carothers, AndreaCarothers, David Carothers, Kyle Houck, Nicole Medina, and Jeramie Van Acker. Florida Risk Partners lives up to its name byestablishing a true partnership with each clientBy Dennis H. PillsburyBack in 2016, David R. Carothers, CIC, CRM, wasn’t even dreaming of having his agency appear on the cover of Rough Notes magazine. That’s because he was thinking about leaving the industry.
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Apr 28, 2023 | 
roughnotes.com | Dennis H. Pillsbury |Jim Brooks
Montana agency focuses on the experience for customers and vendor partnersBy Dennis H. PillsburyHow would you like to provide a product that no one wants to buy and no one wants to use? That’s insurance. It’s both loved and hated. Hated when you have to pay the bill, but loved when it makes you whole again after you have a loss that could result in your losing everything. “That’s what ran through my mind when I was bouncing around a name for the agency,” says R.
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Mar 30, 2023 | 
roughnotes.com | Dennis H. Pillsbury |Jim Brooks
Alabama agency focuses risk management expertise on commercial nichesBy Dennis PillsburyWhen Barrie H. Harmon III founded the Harmon Co. in1977, he probably had no idea it would grow to become one of the largest and most respected independent agencies in Alabama—providing risk management services to carefully targeted commercial niches throughout the state and with clientele across the country.
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Mar 30, 2023 | 
roughnotes.com | Dennis H. Pillsbury |Jim Brooks
Alabama agency focuses risk management expertise on commercial nichesBy Dennis PillsburyWhen Barrie H. Harmon III founded the Harmon Co. in1977, he probably had no idea it would grow to become one of the largest and most respected independent agencies in Alabama—providing risk management services to carefully targeted commercial niches throughout the state and with clientele across the country.
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Mar 1, 2023 | 
roughnotes.com | Dennis H. Pillsbury |Jim Brooks
Honoring the past while building a future for community, the agency, and othersBy Dennis H. Pillsbury“I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors,” says Joshua Morey, president of The J. Morey Company, Inc., an independent agency with four offices in southern California. He’s referring to his decision to follow his father into a businessthat he learned “was of great importance to our community.
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Jan 30, 2023 | 
roughnotes.com | Dennis H. Pillsbury |Jim Brooks
Georgia agency attracts talent with its emphasis on personal growth along with agency growthBy Dennis Pillsbury“Our team has created a healthy work home, and we’re just getting started,” says Stephen (Steve) M. Harmon, AAI, ARM, principal at Snellings Walters Insurance Agency, Atlanta, Georgia.
